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godly1966 on "Fluffy bunnies unexpected victims of the Bedroom Tax"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-171979
Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:15:15 +0000godly1966171979@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Well done easily the best and the cleanest.
</p>sponge finger on "Fluffy bunnies unexpected victims of the Bedroom Tax"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-171088
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:24:52 +0000sponge finger171088@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>I'd like to see that bunny pic on some of the protest placards re the Bedroom Tax
</p>Squudge on "Fluffy bunnies unexpected victims of the Bedroom Tax"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-171003
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:29:15 +0000Squudge171003@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Ta. I have to admit the Owsla bunnies frightened me as a kid. Scary artwork.<br />
I can quite see then as bunny people-traffickers.
</p>Ironduke on "Fluffy bunnies unexpected victims of the Bedroom Tax"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-170937
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:39:51 +0000Ironduke170937@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Lovely work. And fair play to the watership down cartoonist who accepted the brief to 'create a really vicious looking bunny rabbit' too.
</p>sponge finger on "Fluffy bunnies unexpected victims of the Bedroom Tax"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-170936
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:36:29 +0000sponge finger170936@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>neato?
</p>Squudge on "Fluffy bunnies unexpected victims of the Bedroom Tax"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-170913
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:29:50 +0000Squudge170913@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>It has been discovered that from April 2013, rabbits on the Downs will incur penalties for having less than 20 bunnies in a chamber. This has set the hares running with terrible results in some deprived areas. A spokesrabbit from Watership Down, near Basingstoke, today gave a shocking account of resultant bunny-trafficking. </p>
<p>"The Owsla bunnies run the finances round here and have been forcing us to up the numbers. We have had to break into domestic hutches and a local pharmaceutical lab. Most of the newbies are very unhappy about having their passports taken away and being kept in cramped conditions with only a ditch for sanitation, then forced to be sex workers". </p>
<p>"Not that I am complaining about that bit", he admitted, "but the educated ones taken from private hutches have been inciting unrest and banging on about their leporid rights. </p>
<p>We didn't expect the Warren Reform Act to have an impact here, but what with modern agricultural methods and ongoing outbreaks of 'myxy', warrens are nothing like as crowded as they used to be. These days a modern young couple of rabbits, far from being huddled ten families to a chamber, can now spread out and have a bit of privacy. The pups expect separate bedrooms, and we even had a snooker room at my old warren near Winchester."<br />
<img src="http://assets4.pinimg.com/upload/87116574014537293_94Iipk84.jpg"><br />
Some of the rabbits expressed concern at the viability of the bunny trafficking enterprise. "The immigration ferrets are on to us. You try passing off a lop-eared bunny as kin without proper paperwork, and some of the new intake are more trouble than they are worth. Princess Flopsie here is a total nightmare, demanding that we raid the local nurseries for Frisée and Radicchio. The lab bunnies want us to ring their private healthcare provider at the first sign of every sniffle. Really that could blow the whole operation."</p>
<p>"The idiotic part is that we will lose the 25% single-occupancy discount on tax levied by the polecats. That is something the Owsla hadn't factored in. The government just don't think through the consequences of these new policies" sighed the spokesbunny, who admitted he only voted Tory because Cameron's big shiny face reminded him of the moon.
</p>BleepingTom on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163&page=2#post-156878
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:39:52 +0000BleepingTom156878@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p><a href="http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2012/12/tory-mp-alecshelbrooke-introduces-bill-for-welfare-cash-card-to-stop-claimants-buying-cigarettes-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2012/12/tory-mp-alecshelbrooke-introduces-bill-for-welfare-cash-card-to-stop-claimants-buying-cigarettes-and.html</a></p>
<p>Guys seriously this is a satire site not a news site.
</p>Sir Lupus on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163&page=2#post-156842
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:15:53 +0000Sir Lupus156842@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Don't know what colour, I'll investigate. I guess in the future everything will be cards - or on yr phone - but that makes it look sort of cool or desirable, whereas the ration stamps idea gets closer to the miserly heart of the idea. </p>
<p>and asylum seekers as the new version of Thatcher's Scotland - everything is tested on them first...?
</p>Squudge on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163&page=2#post-156759
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:16:38 +0000Squudge156759@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Sir Lupus - what colour are the asylum stamps?/cards I briefly flirted with that idea when putting the sub together but didn't realise they already existed.</p>
<p>Damn - are ration books going to be Oyster Cards in future (or 'value-range beans' cards)?
</p>Sir Lupus on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163&page=2#post-156725
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:15 +0000Sir Lupus156725@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>very good. and the truth in 2032? this is <em>already</em> very close to the system under which asylum seekers waiting for their case to be heard receive their 2/3 of income support - they get special cards loaded with credits - except that they can only use their cards at certain large chains/supermarkets, not independent shops. of course, there's no suggestion that the owners of these large chains might have donated money to any political parties...
</p>The All New Jeni B on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156618
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:35:15 +0000The All New Jeni B156618@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Absolutely, because it's such a luxury for women having to buy them.
</p>Squudge on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156611
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:32:52 +0000Squudge156611@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>I know which way it should be for whomever decided to put VAT on them
</p>The All New Jeni B on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156589
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:45:34 +0000The All New Jeni B156589@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>I suspect Des may be asking a few questions of you young Bourbon...</p>
<p>Squudge, brilliantly thought out and well written.</p>
<p>I'm a little concerned that tampons are a sore point for you, you do know they're inserted lengthwise rather than sideways?
</p>Bourbon on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156577
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:39:37 +0000Bourbon156577@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Mrs Custard????????</p>
<p> I have never met her.</p>
<p>Honest.</p>
<p>Never.</p>
<p>Ever.</p>
<p>No sir.</p>
<p>Never.
</p>Squudge on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156576
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:35:34 +0000Squudge156576@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>are you going to give me the manky sausage and save the best cuts for Mrs Custard?
</p>Bourbon on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156575
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:34:06 +0000Bourbon156575@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Wrong choice, you lose.</p>
<p> Lets look at what you could have won. ------------&gt;
</p>Squudge on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156574
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:32:19 +0000Squudge156574@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>right...</p>
<p>GOVERNMENT STAMPS OUT BENEFITS</p>
<p>(final answer) ...even if you can vouch for the fact it is irrational
</p>custard cream on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156573
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:30:40 +0000custard cream156573@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>another sure fire winner!
</p>Bourbon on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156572
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:30:39 +0000Bourbon156572@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Or </p>
<p>Stamping out benefits is rational insists government voucher
</p>Bourbon on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156571
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:29:55 +0000Bourbon156571@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Or </p>
<p> Welfare stamps on government </p>
<p>As it could mean they are coutesy if them or it backfires and welfare 'stamps on the government'
</p>Squudge on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156570
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:19:14 +0000Squudge156570@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>not bad at all...
</p>Bourbon on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156569
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:17:03 +0000Bourbon156569@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Ok how about ...</p>
<p>Stamping out benefits is rational insists government voucher
</p>Squudge on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156568
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:09:33 +0000Squudge156568@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>oh go on, have another go, my headline bores me ...inspiration needed</p>
<p>...mmm... I might have got it, what about:</p>
<p>'GOVERNMENT STAMPS ON WELFARE'
</p>Bourbon on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156560
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:10:47 +0000Bourbon156560@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>No, I was to busy sulking
</p>Squudge on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156559
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:54:14 +0000Squudge156559@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>did you one-star me??<br />
}-)
</p>Bourbon on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156558
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:40:34 +0000Bourbon156558@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Last time I try and help!!!!!
</p>Squudge on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156555
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:21:40 +0000Squudge156555@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>true :-)</p>
<p>I'm hoping for a snappy headline that works though...
</p>Bourbon on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156543
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:49:49 +0000Bourbon156543@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>oh, but I got all three.
</p>Squudge on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156537
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:36:14 +0000Squudge156537@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>hmm...</p>
<p>Welfare state to be commemorated with stamps (?)
</p>Bourbon on "Tax credits and benefits to be 'stamped out' - breaking news"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156533
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:15:09 +0000Bourbon156533@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Stamping out benefits is rational insists government voucher
</p>